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Rike Stelkens

@stelkens.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof, Evolutionary Genomics, Quantitative/Population Genetics, Yeast, Experimental Evolution, Hybridization, @Stockholm University stelkenslab.com

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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Just a few days left now for registration!
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Please join us at this #EMBOEvoEco Workshop on 6-9 October 2026. It is hands down one of my (if not THE) favourite conferences with a real community feeling and it's great for networking! Also, the catering is excellent. :)
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Gerda Saxer @gerdasaxer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This paper has been a long time in the making. Started during my Ph.D., @chloehbk.bsky.social and @stelkens.bsky.social picked it up and finished it. Huge thank you to all my co-authors! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
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Adaptive Benefits of Hybridization in Saccharomyces Yeast are Constrained by Genomic Background and Depend on Temperature
Abstract. Climate change urges us to better understand and predict evolutionary responses to temperature shifts. Hybridization, by increasing genetic varia
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Chloé Haberkorn @chloehbk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
New paper out in Evolution 🧫🧬 doi.org/10.1093/evol... with a pretty big crew & @stelkens.bsky.social ! Story started over 20 years ago, fun to jump in late and help wrap it up :)
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Adaptive Benefits of Hybridization in Saccharomyces Yeast are Constrained by Genomic Background and Depend on Temperature
Abstract. Climate change urges us to better understand and predict evolutionary responses to temperature shifts. Hybridization, by increasing genetic varia
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🧨 New publication out (I think this one is 🌶️ ): Cerca & @stelkens.bsky.social - "The identity crisis of speciation genomics". academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Come to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm this Friday if you want to hear a story that starts in Patagonia and ends in a beer bottle!
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
What do wild microbes and the taste of beer have in common? Next Friday you can listen to Prof. Rike Stelkens at The Nobel Prize Museum talking about the role of yeast in evolution & taste locally brewed beer. @stelkens.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social www.nobelprizemuseum.se/en/event/the...
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The chemistry of yeast – from Patagonia to local beer
Listen to researcher Rike Stelkens talk about the role of yeast in evolution, and enjoy a tasting of locally brewed beer.
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Chloé Haberkorn @chloehbk.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Wanna read about yeasts and heat waves? 🥵 Check out our new preprint with @jennifermolinet.bsky.social and @stelkens.bsky.social! doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We will be telling the story behind the beer and our exciting journey to get it bottled at The Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 13th February. See the invitation to the event here: www.nobelprizemuseum.se/en/event/the...
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The chemistry of yeast – from Patagonia to local beer
Listen to researcher Rike Stelkens talk about the role of yeast in evolution, and enjoy a tasting of locally brewed beer.
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We made a new lager beer! "Indomitus" for wild and untamed. Brewed with a wild yeast strain from Patagonia! This is the result of a super fun collaboration (and lots of hard work) with Francisco Cubillos in Chile (@fcocubillosr.bsky.social) and Andrés Furukawa at the Nils Oscar Brewery in Sweden.
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Javier Pinto @javo-pinto.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Check our last paper, where we explore how interspecific hybridization can facilitate adaptation to novel environments. @stelkens.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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The long-term evolutionary potential of four yeast species and their hybrids in extreme temperature conditions
Abstract. Accelerating climate change and extreme temperatures urge us to better understand the potential of populations to tolerate and adapt to thermal c
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Associate Professor in Zoology with focus on ecology and evolution
Department of Zoology  at Stockholm University includes ca. 80 employees counting researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an internatio
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Thank you for having me at the SMBE satellite meeting in Puerto Varas in Chile! @smbe-chile2025.bsky.social Super well organised, fantastic people, interesting science! 🧪 🌋
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
We’re welcoming a new PhD student to the lab! Rubie Min Lu, formerly in Jason Tsai‘s lab @ishengtsai.bsky.social has joined us in Stockholm. Welcome Rubie!
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Tanja Slotte @tanjaslotte.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
Purple pollen visible in a dissected flower of Linum grandiflorum, flowering flax, an insect-pollinated species.
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Hanna Johannesson @hannajohannesson.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
We have several open positions in my group, funded from the ERC Grant on the Early Sequestered Germline of Fungi. We search broadly for applicants at both PhD and master-level, with a dedicated interest in fungal evolutionary biology. Please forward and RT! Find the positions here: su.varbi.com
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Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet
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Marianna Karageorgi @mkarag.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
How do populations maintain an evolutionary memory? I am happy to share that our work with Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social, Paul Schmidt, and colleagues on dominance reversal and stabilization of insecticide resistance in changing environments over time is now published at Nature EE.
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Beneficial reversal of dominance maintains a large-effect resistance polymorphism under fluctuating insecticide selection - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Measuring selection and dominance in fitness of the insecticide-resistant Ace alleles in Drosophila melanogaster, the authors show evidence for beneficial reversal of dominance, a mechanism that can s...
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Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation @kawresearch.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new #beer and bread flavors, but can also serve as a unique model for studying #climatechange @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @stelkens.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mebnw7v5
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Wild yeasts as a model for climate research | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new beer and bread flavors, but wild yeast can also serve as a u...
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We are particularly happy to see this paper out. It has been in the making for a long time and was a large collaborative effort between postdocs, Phd students, and great colleagues in Gothenburg! @chloehbk.bsky.social @ciarangilchrist.bsky.social
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Crosses between divergent-selected lines produced hybrids with reduced gamete viability and striking genome instability (lots more SVs), while parallel-selected lines remained largely compatible. This links ecological selection to the emergence of “intrinsic” genetic barriers.
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We evolved yeast for 1000 generations in divergent and in parallel environments. At regular time points during experimental evolution, we made crosses within and between environments, and show that adaptation to different “ecological niches” can generate partial reproductive isolation.
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We have a new paper out in Molecular Ecology, led by @devinbendixsen.bsky.social ! Reproductive isolation due to divergent ecological selection is accompanied by vast genomic instability in experimentally evolved yeast populations onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
It truly was! Next time, you should join us!
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We’re still beaming from hosting illustrious guest for our workshop on yeast genomics and evolution in Sweden! Thanks to Gilles Fischer, @fcocubillosr.bsky.social @pablo-villa.bsky.social for sciencing, kayaking, walking, talking, beer tasting, and just generally making science as fun as it can be!
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Please re-post widely!
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We are looking for candidates with a strong interest in evolutionary biology. Email me if you have any questions about the lab, work, and life in Sweden. Start date in negotiable. Btw, it's perfectly fine to apply if you completed your PhD more than 3 yeas ago!
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thank you Peris and team! I had a fantastic time, you are exceptional hosts!
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Miguel Morard @mmorard.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Having fantastic days of Science with @stelkens.bsky.social and @hittingerlab.bsky.social in the @iatacsic.bsky.social. So inspiring. Great research and better persons ! Thanks to @dperisn.bsky.social @fungialab.bsky.social for organizing it.
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FunGIALab @fungialab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🧬 Microbial Marvels: Biodiversity & Evolution of Yeasts Top scientists @hittingerlab.bsky.social & @stelkens.bsky.social reveal how yeasts evolve, adapt, and speciate. @uv.es @upv.es Don’t miss this inspiring workshop! 📅 June 16 📍 @iatacsic.bsky.social🔗https://bit.ly/4mytSC2 #YeastScience
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Small correction: in the graphical abstract, that should be S. paradoxus, not S. cerevisiae! 🫣 🫠
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Want to know more about the ecology of wild yeasts, their association with oak trees, temperature, and rainfall? Read the latest by @chloehbk.bsky.social and @javo-pinto.bsky.social
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
How do organisms adapt to climate change? A new study in @pnas.org reveals the complex interplay between genetic diversity and temperature tolerance evolution. New study from @jennifermolinet.bsky.social & @stelkens.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...
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Yeast reveals how species adapt to a warmer climate - Stockholm University
Yeast reveals how species adapt to a warmer climate How do organisms adapt to climate change? A new study reveals the complex interplay between genetic diversity and temperature tolerance evolution.
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Just out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "The evolution of thermal performance curves in response to rising temperatures across the model genus yeast". Beautiful work using experimental evolution forecasting climate impacts on biodiversity by Jennifer Molinet @jennifermolinet.bsky.social
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Wild yeasts live in forests all around us but little is known about their roles in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new beer & bread flavors, but wild yeast can also serve as unique model for studying climate change. @stelkens.bsky.social @kawresearch.bsky.social www.su.se/english/news...
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Wild yeasts as a model for climate research - Stockholm University
Wild yeasts can be used to develop new beer and bread flavors, but wild yeast can also serve as a unique model for studying climate change.
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Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
New vacancy in my team! PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture. Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #MEvoSky #MicroSky
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Eve Seuntjens @eveseuntjens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We're hiring! Our lab is looking for a postdoc to investigate the #evodevo of #cephalopod brains. Did you recently graduate, and do you want to join our EU #WEAVE project with the Simakov and @simon-sprecher.bsky.social labs? Find the application form👇Thanks for RT 🐙🦑 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Postdoctoral researcher in evolutionary developmental neurobiology
Come join our EU cephalopod consortium to discover how octopuses and other coleoids developed their large nervous system. Postdoc position available in the Seuntjens Lab in Leuven, Belgium.
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Now out in @NatureEcoEvo! Life (and adaptation to warming) is a story of chance and history, but also... epistasis... Congrats to former grad student Alex Rego and ace collaborator David Berger for their brilliance and endurance and thanks to Zach Blount for a great commentary!
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
One of our main sponsors, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, has published a nice article about our work. Yay to fundamental research! @kawresearch.bsky.social kaw.wallenberg.org/en/research/...
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Wild yeasts as a model for climate research | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
Wild yeasts live in the forests all around us. Yet, little is known about the role they play in ecosystems. They can be used to develop new beer and bread flavors, but wild yeast can also serve as a u...
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Congrats!
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Only 1 more week to apply for this postdoc position on the genomics of parallel climate adaptation in yeast! Link to application portal is in the post below. Please share widely! 🧪🌳🧬🍄
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Two more weeks to apply for a PhD position in our yeast genomics and evolution lab at Stockholm University! Please share widely. 🧪🧬🌳🍄
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Not important!
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Today we had Anna Runemark over! She talked about transgressive gene expression in hybrids. We’re looking forward to dabble in yeast experimental evolution together! 🧪
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Very interesting opportunity for a female African microbiologist. @tuliodna.bsky.social @ckyobutungi.bsky.social Please promote
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Evolution and genomcis friends, please repost widely!
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Specific aims are to investigate 1) parallel evolution of climate adaptation in yeast from Europe and South America, 2) the genetic architecture of thermal traits, and 3) the evolution of pathogenicity as a by-product of thermotolerance.
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The postdoc will be harnessing the power of experimental evolution and comparative genomics with yeast to address fundamental questions in evolutionary biology.
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